Example sentences of "we were [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I played in the last game in the Third Division before we were relegated to the Fourth . |
| 2 | To go back to the Gdynia one on the ninth of October nineteen forty three , I have to state that when our crew arrived in England we went to er through school at Bovingdon for a couple of weeks then we were assigned to the Ninety Second Bomb Group and they wan na be sure we fit in . |
| 3 | If we were pushed to the fringes of power we would be stripped of influence in both Europe and the world . |
| 4 | In that time , we were tied to the gold standard , which we found to be inadequate and inflexible , especially as it depended in part on the mining activities in the gold mines of South Africa and the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | At length we were called to an ante-room , where he was told to strip to the waist and wait . |
| 6 | We were called to an explosion and house fire in Sutton-in-Ashfield and I responded as Officer in Charge and I pulled up outside , we dealt with the fire and then we began the investigation to find out what had happened . |
| 7 | We were belonging to the territorials then . |
| 8 | In the evening , after a superb meal in the à la carte restaurant , we were treated to a Sunwing show followed by dancing to the latest sounds — only for those who were n't too tired after a hard day 's sunbathing ! |
| 9 | We were treated to a pathetic song , whose sentiments we knew were real enough . |
| 10 | Out on the river , their language was less guarded , and we were treated to a variety of epithets which no Merton man , I hope , would have allowed past his lips in mixed company . |
| 11 | A flock of eight curlew rose and we were treated to a spectacular display flight of steep flapping rises , slow glides and bubbling trills . |
| 12 | The van doors swung open and as Antinou 's lads eased us out we were treated to a 6 a.m. view of Clapton . |
| 13 | We were treated to a marvellous breakfast of bread , cheese and salami followed by ham and eggs and lashings of coffee … … … luxury ! |
| 14 | For our final talk in the previously arranged programme ( note the earlier comment on the Shrewsbury signal box visit ) we were treated to an excellent talk on the Central Wales Line by Mr Tony Birdwood of Llanwrda . |
| 15 | For the second Test running we were treated to the sight of a batsman in plaster coming out to help a colleague reach his hundred , and both were successful . |
| 16 | After a morning visit to the market , we repaired to the tranquility of a nearby cafe — The Lotus Cafe , where we were treated to the sight of enormous lotuses , entirely covering a large pond . |
| 17 | The traffic had jammed up for one thing and then we were treated to the sight of the guy in the rabbit costume ( it must have been male , women do n't run like that ) tearing down the street carrying a sledgehammer , hotly pursued by two policemen trying to keep their helmets on . |
| 18 | We were treated to the long diatribes of detailed considerations about the cost of paper clips and God knows what else . |
| 19 | ‘ We were sent to a landing strip on the coast near Bardia to set up a listening post on a wavelength contained in sealed orders . |
| 20 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 21 | I have always found race-meetings very boring , and when we were invited to a box at the Kelso races , I had it in mind to decline . |
| 22 | On Wednesday , we met them again , when we were invited to a dinner in their honour at the Embassy . |
| 23 | We were invited to a ‘ banquet ’ on the evening after our arrival here , but actually there was n't the usual kind of formal speech making . |
| 24 | When we arrived on the island , we were invited to the President 's palace . |
| 25 | They 'd come up to Hampstead to have coffee and we were to go to the Everyman , but the queue was too long . |
| 26 | The events that followed have been chronicled by several of those that took part , My fate was similar : we were to listen out for a coded signal from Group at Lyon if we were to proceed to the target . |
| 27 | The method of composition helps to explain the feel of the blank verse ; it should be read aloud , in a quiet meditative manner , as if we were listening to a man trying hard to clarify his own thoughts about a difficult topic and at the same lime explaining it to somebody else . |
| 28 | After a few moments the snuffles and grunts were overlaid by a voice explaining in sympathetically conspiratorial tones that we were listening to the sounds made by mating koalas in the Pilliga Nature Reserve in New South Wales . |
| 29 | We were listening to the Woodstock tape today |
| 30 | Finally we were referred to the recent decision of the House of Lords in Roy v. Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster Family Practitioner Committee [ 1992 ] 1 A.C. 624 . |